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Tides: A Prelude
A Virtual Exhibition | In-Person Exhibition Open through April 25.

NATURE is the driving force of this riveting exhibition based on the gravitational pull of the sun and moon on the earth's bodies of waters. Exploring the spectrum of color, shape and frequency of sound, artist Arica Hilton's paintings delve into the meaning of the TIDES in a direct and indirect menu of materials, both real and metaphorical.  
 
Hilton's works consist of oil on canvas and acrylic on acrylic canvasses reimagined to address contemporary environmental issues such as climate change, plastic pollution and our oceans and its inhabitants, expressed through art, music and poetry. You can view Arica's work by clicking through the 360 virtual tour, or by exploring the gallery images below.
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About the Artist

Arica Hilton, Artist and Global Advocate
Arica Hilton is a Mediterranean born artist, gallerist, curator, and poet who has devoted herself to capturing the beauty of water, the most valuable element on earth. Her work is layers, depth, limpidity. It is also a message: recycled bits of micro-plastic infuse the fairy-tale colors, highlighting the very real human impact on water and its consequences for the planet.
Hilton’s own artistic pursuits began with writing poetry and expanded to painting when she began to illustrate her poems.  Her artistic evolution sparked an interest in the realm of creation, and she discovered mathematics, physics, quantum mechanics, and string theory.  Her studies solidified her passion for environmentalism when she learned that stars are nothing more than another extension of humanity – that the elements in the bloodstream are the same elements that comprise a star.  The interconnection was what Hilton had been searching for her whole life. As Hilton says, “We are the same as a star. How beautiful is that?” 
​Today, Hilton is a visual artist, poet and global advocate who travels worldwide to enrich her life and the lives of others. She is based in Chicago, where she is the director of Hilton Asmus Contemporary, a gallery platform that she leverages to support artists and environmentalists who seek change for a better world.

360 Virtual Tour

  • To self-navigate through the 360 tour below, click on the floor of the gallery in the direction you'd like to go, or by click on the destination you'd like to go to in the Highlight list. 
  • To let the tour advance automatically trough the space, click on the gray triangle in the top left corner of the tour to "play camera animation."
  • Throughout the tour, you will see floating green icons indicating the presence of further information such as videos or zoomable images.  Click on these to enhance your tour.

The Gallery:

Serenity Sunset
The Multiverse
Crescendo
Tides I
Tides II
Moonlight Sonata
Reflet
Libertad
Coral Misool
Heart of the Ocean
Jardin du Monde
Mediterranean Sonata
The Etudes
The Broadsides
Reflets Dans L'Eau I
Reflets Dans L'Eau II
Color of Sound: Turquoise
Color of Sound: Violet
Color of Sound: Tangerine
Color of Sound: Raspberry
The Nocturnes
I Heard an Oak Tree
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